Process of graphitizing preformed carbon bodies



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I To all whomit may Be it known that application filed June t,

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I, EMERIOH SzARvAsr,

a citizen of Hungary, residing at Budapest.

Hungary,

have invented certain new and in a Process for Graphitizing Preformed Carbon Bodies, of

which the My invention relates to a process following is a specification.

by which.

a perfect graphitizing of carbon electrodes can be obtained in a simple and etlicient way.

The balringl or bodies,

graphitizing of carbon such as electrodes and contacts is obtained by embedding the carbon bodies in coalor coke-dust and subjecting them to the action of heat in gas-furnaces or still better in electric furnaces,

for instance in accordance with the Acheson process, which process,

owing to the improved graphitized state and increased conductivity of the carborn bodies produced,

in the production trolytic purposes.

is to be preferred of electrodes for elec- According to my invention, the carbon electrodes are heated in an atmosphere of methane to the temperature where methane is decomposed. The carbon particles generated by precipitate chietly heated electrodes, dense coating, the

the decomposition of the methane on the surface of the forming an exceedingly thickness of which can be regulated by the time of the action of the methane from a traction of a millimeter to several millimeters.

.ll. am aware "that; gases ,y ieldin carbon have already beeniusedin'graphitizing processes, butthe only; gases used up till now were the -higherhydrocarbons,- hich de- (ill compose" at 'relati yielding sides products or minor distinction thereto I rely low' temperatures, carbon and lower hydrocarbons bevalue. Tn contra ll use the gas with the lowest possible content ofcarbon, viz. inethane, which at the same time is the hydro carbon most difiicult to methane in the process tain excellent, dense metallic sound.

My invention is decompose; by using of graphitizing, ll obbased on the supposition that by graphitizing the carbon thus treated does not under pores are filled u particles generate go a transformation, but its by the minute carbon by the thermic decomthane.

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position ,ot the gases, which are develo under the influence of heat either from the carbon body or vfrom the atmosphere surrounding it and that in order to accelerate and improve the graphitizing, an artificial supply of the gas which is the most stable at high temperatures will yield the best results. These suppositions are confirmed by the good results. obtained with my process, which results may be further attributed to the possibility that the carbon originating from that hydrocarbon which presents the greatest stability at high temperature has many of the properties specific to graphitic carbon and which are found also in other kinds of carbon produced by pyrogenetic methods.

' The electrodes graphitized according to the new .process have an exceedingly resistive surface obviously adapted for electrolytical purposes.

It the methane is diluted with indilicrent gases the decomposing temperature is lowered"whereby it is rendered possible to graphitize at relatively low temperature.

The new process furtherv renders it possible to graphitize electrodes previously baked by any brown rocess.

The heating of the electrodes may be carried out either externally, for instance by gas heating, or internally by electric re sistance heating, for instance in a rotary kiln, in which the electrodes to be graphitized are embedded in coal grit, produced likewise by thermic decomposition of me The current flowing through the charge of the furnace produces the heat for decomposing the methane; the graphitic carbon is precipitated partly on the surface of the carbon bodies to e treated, and on the surface. of the grit, thereby p'roducin an increased quantity of carbon this grit is one of the best raw materials for the manufacture of electrodes, this embodiment of my invention enables me to produce raw material for electrodes and to graphitize the electrodes at the same time.

- What ll claim is:

1. The process for graphitizing electrodes formed as usual which consists in heating the electrodes in an atmosphere of methane to a temperature at which methane decomposes.

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llllti 2. The process, which consists in heating electric resistance heating, to the tempera-' carbon bodies in an atmosphere of methane ture at which the methane decomposes. 1 diluted with indifferent gases, to the tem- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature perature at which methane decomposes. in presence of two Witnesses. l 3. The process, which consists in heating, EMERICH SZARVA SY.

carbon bodies in an atmosphere of methane, Witnesses:

said bodies being embedded in 'carbon grit J. CHAS. MEn YLs, originating from methane decomposed by EUG; HARSANYI. 

